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Fast friends: a running camp in Kenyahttps://www.theguardian.com/travel/2011/apr/16/iten-kenya-running-athletics-training-camp
A new holiday for runners in Kenya's Rift Valley offers top-notch facilities and a schedule that will leave you breathless<p>Iten is an unlikely runners' paradise. High up in Kenya's Rift Valley, it's a small, chaotic town, typical of the region. The <em>mitumba</em> (secondhand clothes market) spills out by the side of the only tarmac road, as <em>matatus</em> (small buses) drive by day and night, beeping and touting for passengers. Donkeys and cyclists struggle by piled high with crates of chickens or sacks of charcoal, and sheep, goats and cows roam freely.</p><p>The surrounding countryside is dotted with round mud huts; in hand-ploughed fields, children in torn clothes stand and stare, and dusty roads crisscross the fertile land in every direction. It is along these roads, usually early in the morning, that you will find the runners. One after the other after the other they shoot by, dressed in Lycra, the latest Nike running shoes and Gore-Tex jackets. It's an incongruous sight, but to an athletics fan, it makes perfect sense. Because from this tiny corner of Kenya hail most of the world's greatest distance runners.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2011/apr/16/iten-kenya-running-athletics-training-camp">Continue reading...</a>Kenya holidaysHealth and fitness holidaysAfrica holidaysTravelSportAthleticsFri, 15 Apr 2011 23:05:10 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/travel/2011/apr/16/iten-kenya-running-athletics-training-campPhotograph: Marietta d'ErlangerRunaway success … Adharanand Finn joins Kenyan athletes for an early morning training session. Photograph: Marietta d'ErlangerPhotograph: Marietta d'ErlangerRunaway success … Adharanand Finn joins Kenyan athletes for an early morning training session. Photograph: Marietta d'ErlangerAdharanand Finn2011-04-15T23:05:10ZRebecca Seal checks a Kenyan health retreat with hipposhttps://www.theguardian.com/travel/2007/oct/07/escape.kenya
A holistic retreat on Kenya's Indian Ocean coast offers the chance to combine wellbeing with wildlife. Rebecca Seal checks in<p>It's 1am and I am being driven down an utterly dark road, somewhere south of Mombasa. Every now and then a person shows up in the headlights. My driver tells me they are walking home from work. 'But isn't that rather dangerous? Couldn't they get hit by cars?' His reply, somewhat dry, shuts me up: 'Well, as you can see, there is very little traffic. The greater risk is perhaps the lions, or actually the snakes.' </p><p>The rest of my holiday will be characterised by such extremes. I am travelling alone to a country which is lushly tropical in parts, ravaged by drought in others; where most of the population lives on almost nothing, but where Westerners come to play on white beaches and in warm seas.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2007/oct/07/escape.kenya">Continue reading...</a>TravelKenya holidaysAfrica holidaysSafarisHealth and fitness holidaysSpa breaksBeach holidaysWildlife holidaysRest and relaxationSun, 07 Oct 2007 16:22:53 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/travel/2007/oct/07/escape.kenyaPhotograph: AlamyThe perfect white sands at Diani. Photograph: AlamyPhotograph: AlamyThe perfect white sands at Diani. Photograph: AlamyRebecca Seal2007-10-07T16:22:53ZWild thinghttps://www.theguardian.com/travel/2002/jun/27/kenya.teacherstimeoff
Running through Kenya's Arabuko-Sokoke forest, swimming in the Indian Ocean and dining on mango juice and oysters - Ian Belcher finds the Wild Fitness course is gym life, but not as he knows it...<p> "Ian, your left side is totally shaking. Try and centre yourself. Run with perfect balance."</p><p>If anyone knows about perfectly balanced running, it's Kennedy Ochieng. Twice Olympic 400m bronze medallist, twice African champion, he's more used to competing against Michael Johnson than a wheezing, lopsided amateur, whose career pinnacle was reached in the Bedford half-marathon. In 1987.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2002/jun/27/kenya.teacherstimeoff">Continue reading...</a>Kenya holidaysTravelEducationHealth and fitness holidaysThu, 27 Jun 2002 16:58:09 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/travel/2002/jun/27/kenya.teacherstimeoffIan Belcher2002-06-27T16:58:09ZOn the steep path to recoveryhttps://www.theguardian.com/travel/2001/apr/22/climbingholidays.kenya.travellingwithdisabilities
Paul Pritchard lays the ghosts of a crippling climbing accident by tackling Africa's second highest peak<p>There is a pinnacle that stands in the sea off the south coast of Tasmania that, for a climber, is one of the world's 'must dos'. It is 250 feet high and 12ft wide and it is utterly beautiful. It is called the Totem Pole and I had to have a go at it. On Friday 13 February 1998, I attempted the climb. As I was descending on the rope a boulder fell 90ft and smashed my skull in. The rescue was long and involved and I had to undergo six hours of surgery on my brain. I couldn't speak for a month and one side of my body was left paralysed. </p><p>Three years on I'm still recovering. It's a slow process. Many people with brain injuries can't see an end to it; they give up on their physiotherapy or neuro-psychology and their families give up on them too. I wanted to prove to people like myself that you don't have to give up on life just because you have a head injury. You can still follow your passion, whether it be cooking, reading or hang gliding. My passion happens to be mountaineering. </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2001/apr/22/climbingholidays.kenya.travellingwithdisabilities">Continue reading...</a>Climbing holidaysKenya holidaysTravelTravelling with disabilitiesDisabilityHealth and fitness holidaysSun, 22 Apr 2001 17:30:14 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/travel/2001/apr/22/climbingholidays.kenya.travellingwithdisabilitiesPaul Pritchard2001-04-22T17:30:14Z